Firefox OS based smartphone arrives tomorrow

Dutch website Tweakers reports that the ZTE Open, world's first smartphone with Mozilla's Firefox OS, will be launched tomorrow in Spain. The ZTE Open has a 3.5" screen with 480 x 320 pixel resolution, it uses a Qualcomm MSM7225A S1 single-core SoC with a frequency of 1GHz, it has an Adreno 200 GPU and a 4GB memory card.

Firefox OS is primarily intended for the budget market and it promises easy app development thanks to support for HTML and CSS. The phone will be sold in Spain for 69 EUR in a pre-paid bundle that includes 30EUR pay-as-you-go-credit.

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#4628969 Posted on: 07/31/2013 11:35 AM
I wouldn't at all be surprised at their evil doings!

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#4629011 Posted on: 07/31/2013 12:55 PM
thing is, I can beat all of their advertised scores in any benchmark anyway

EDIT: just read that article, all they're saying is that the gpu runs at 533mhz in some benchmarks and then in some apps/games it'll downclock to 480mhz. That's pretty standard behavior.

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#4629043 Posted on: 07/31/2013 01:49 PM
thing is, I can beat all of their advertised scores in any benchmark anyway

EDIT: just read that article, all they're saying is that the gpu runs at 533mhz in some benchmarks and then in some apps/games it'll downclock to 480mhz. That's pretty standard behavior.

Well once again we have some random tech site putting a spin on the actual content. Anandtech's original article sounds no where near as malicious as every other tech site linking to them. The click bait **** is getting ridiculous.

My S4 belongs in the garbage bin after seeing the NVIDIA Ira demo on a 2W Kepler.

well you have time, this Tegra5 will be released in 1year, it is not even in production and yet they use prediction at 1ghz+ on a 192SP Kepler with a cooler as large of GK110 cores .. Forget to see it run at this speed on a smartphone, maybe at 400-500mhz, and coupled with LPDDR3 shared, i fear the gpu performance will not be as good as they want to show it.

Under ordinary conditions, the GALAXY S4 has been designed to allow a maximum GPU frequency of 533MHz. However, the maximum GPU frequency is lowered to 480MHz for certain gaming apps that may cause an overload, when they are used for a prolonged period of time in full-screen mode. Meanwhile, a maximum GPU frequency of 533MHz is applicable for running apps that are usually used in full-screen mode, such as the S Browser, Gallery, Camera, Video Player, and certain benchmarking apps, which also demand substantial performance.
The maximum GPU frequencies for the GALAXY S4 have been varied to provide optimal user experience for our customers, and were not intended to improve certain benchmark results.

#4629333 Posted on: 07/31/2013 08:26 PM
Dynamic clocks that don't allow the maximum in gaming but allow it in benchmarks?

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#4629337 Posted on: 07/31/2013 08:37 PM
no point in getting an 8-Core CPU or Quad one for a mobile device esp. for texting, emails, few apps left and right.. literally no point especially that if you wanna game the phone will easily overheat. The difference btw a 4 cores and 8 cores CPU on a mobile device is probably minimal to non-existant in real life scenarios.

I played few games like angry bird on my mobile and my device gets above 40C quickly and is a lil too warm to the touch.

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#4629355 Posted on: 07/31/2013 09:20 PM
Dynamic clocks that don't allow the maximum in gaming but allow it in benchmarks?

benchmakrs are really bad on mobile.. no warm up, they are too short and never use fully the processor and gpu as they should. so basically you will not overload anything with them.

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#4629442 Posted on: 07/31/2013 11:03 PM
no point in getting an 8-Core CPU or Quad one for a mobile device esp. for texting, emails, few apps left and right.. literally no point especially that if you wanna game the phone will easily overheat. The difference btw a 4 cores and 8 cores CPU on a mobile device is probably minimal to non-existant in real life scenarios.

I played few games like angry bird on my mobile and my device gets above 40C quickly and is a lil too warm to the touch.

It can't use all 8 at the same time though. It's basically 4 cores with 2 different power levels. It's sorta similar to the tegra 3, except there is a lower power core for each high power core.

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#4629690 Posted on: 08/01/2013 09:34 AM
Well once again we have some random tech site putting a spin on the actual content. Anandtech's original article sounds no where near as malicious as every other tech site linking to them. The click bait **** is getting ridiculous.